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Carte d'Identité Nationale and Passport on one session, screened against CAF sanctions lists and Tunisian PEP registers — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Tunisia.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Tunisian identity fraud: synthetic-CIN and deepfake attacks targeting BCT-licensed payment service providers and the new wave of crypto operators under the 2024 framework, national identity card forgery across legacy paper and current biometric formats, and AML pressure on remittance and stablecoin corridors under CAF sanctions and MENAFATF mutual-evaluation requirements. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Loi n° 2015-26 — Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Law
  • Loi organique n° 2004-63 relative à la protection des données à caractère personnel
  • BCT Circular on Digital Onboarding and Electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC)
  • Loi n° 2016-48 relative aux banques et aux établissements financiers
  • MENAFATF — Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force mutual-evaluation standards
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Tunisia.

These are the supervisors a Tunisia verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.
  • BCT

    Banque Centrale de Tunisie — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, electronic-money operators, and payment service providers. Sets digital-onboarding and KYC requirements for every BCT-licensed financial institution.

  • CAF

    Commission d'Analyse Financière — Tunisia's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Loi n° 2015-26 on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing and receives Déclarations d'Opérations Suspectes from obliged entities.

  • CMF

    Conseil du Marché Financier — capital-markets regulator. Supervises securities firms, investment funds, and brokerage activities. Sets digital-onboarding requirements for CMF-licensed intermediaries.

  • ACM

    Autorité de Contrôle de la Microfinance — microfinance regulator. Sets KYC and onboarding requirements for microfinance institutions serving the unbanked population.

  • INPDP

    Instance Nationale pour la Protection des Données Personnelles — Tunisia's data-protection authority. Enforces Loi organique n° 2004-63 relative à la protection des données à caractère personnel. Governs how identity verification data on Tunisian residents is captured, stored, and disclosed.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Tunisia database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Carte d'Identité Nationale (CIN, national identity number), Passeport Tunisien (with the chip read on e-Passports), Permis de Conduire, Titre de Séjour for foreign nationals, Carte de Réfugié, and Carte de Séjour Étudiant.
  • Returns the name, CIN national identity number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Carte d'Identité Nationale (CIN)
  • Passeport Tunisien — chip read on e-Passport
  • Permis de Conduire · Titre de Séjour · Carte de Réfugié · Carte de Séjour Étudiant
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Tunisian watchlists:

  • House of Representatives of Tunisia — PEP register — Members of Parliament and senior legislative-branch officials (PEP Level 1).
  • Tunisia Stock Exchange — enforcement register — listed-company enforcement actions and exchange disciplinary decisions (PEP Level 3).
  • Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) — PEP register — senior union officials (PEP Level 3).
  • Tunis Governorate — PEP register — regional government officials and governorate executives (PEP Level 4).
  • Agenzia Giornalistica Italia (AGI) — adverse-media signals — international-press negative-news screening covering Tunisia.
  • National Commission for the Fight Against Terrorism, Tunisia — National Sanction List — domestic terror-financing designations under Loi n° 2015-26.
  • Government of Canada — Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials (Tunisia) Regulations — international corruption-linked designations.
  • CAF — enforcement and designation register — Commission d'Analyse Financière FIU designations and enforcement actions.
  • MENAFATF — member-state designations — Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force regional watchlist.
  • UN Security Council — Consolidated Sanctions List — global multilateral sanctions transposed by CAF.
  • OFAC SDN — Specially Designated Nationals List — US Treasury designations with North Africa coverage.
  • Arab League — political and economic sanctions registry — regional body enforcement decisions.
  • Basel AML Index — Tunisia risk signals — country-level risk context updated annually.
  • FATF — high-risk and monitored jurisdictions list — global regulatory-risk context.
  • Interpol — criminal-notice registry — cross-border wanted persons and criminal diffusions.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Cross-check the identity at scale.

Tunisia does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators — no public database validation API exists for the Ministère de l'Intérieur's CIN register.

  • The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative CAF- and INPDP-compliant path today: the CIN national identity number is OCR-parsed from the card, the face is matched against the document portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Tunisian regulatory watchlist and MENAFATF regional designation.
  • For phone, email, and address enrichment, pair the session with global Database Validation services that already work in Tunisia today.
  • A direct Ministère de l'Intérieur authoritative-source lookup ships as BCT eKYC Circular and INPDP-compliant data partners onboard — Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their workflow.
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Stage 04Cross-check the identity at scale

Cross-check the identity at scale — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Tunisia document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential — flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Tunisia.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against — civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter — the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
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EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
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